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‎This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds

Tried watching a Youtube video through a hong kong VPN today. Here’s what happened:
Black screen, then:
‎This video contains content from Vevo, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds
Look Vevo, this isn’t my country first off. Even if I was a citizen here i’m not sure i’d call it “my country”.
Here are are [...]

14 More Things About China

1. People in China don’t call it China. They call it ZhongGuo or ZhongGhua. Zhong means middle. See the character on the left how its a line going through the middle of a box? That’s Zhong. Now Guo is a little more tricky since two characters mean Guo. The gif below will assist you. Most [...]

MyRedChina Server Outage

I apologize if you tried to access my blog and were not able to. My server was down and this happens all the time.
I usually just write the admins pure nonsense to bump my help ticket up. This time I chose a chinese theme:

Reset Please

Online Advertising In China

Tonight I was reading a story on Yahoo and at the bottom I see this ad served from BlueLithium, on a Yahoo News page:

A green card isn’t something you can “win”.
You’d think this would be against Yahoo or Blue Lithium’s Terms Of Service.

Moving To Shenzhen China

Ni Hao!
As you might have guessed from the title of this post i’m moving to Shenzhen, China for work.
Shenzhen (prounounced Shen-Jen) is in the Guangdong province, which means not much to me except another instance of the word “dong” in a Chinese word. For any foreign readers, in the US ‘dong’ means a peenor. [...]